Politico Campaign Contributions - Compare And Contrast

The story of John Boehner's campaign contributions from Matt Taibbi earlier this year seems to have gotten a second wind with those who just now realize that politicians end up going to the highest bidder. Yes, it's funny because it's true. However, in order to bring some objectivity to the debate, below is a very quick comparison study in lifetime campaign fundraising between John Boehner and top democrat Harry Reid. The results speak for themselves.

Did you read how the big hospitals have discovered that if docs wash up between visits to their patients the spread of the deadly biotic infections goes down? Funny, I thought that was discovered quite a few years ago.... Reinventing the wheel?

Interesting story there, actually. Began with Dr. Emile (sp?) Semmelweis (sp?), famous physician in Vienna in charge of three hospitals, back in the 1840s. He postulated "invisible agents" that caused, for example, women giving birth in hospital to die three times more often than if they, for example, gave birth in the cab taking them there. He instituted a policy whereby doctors were required to wash their hands before assisting childbirth, and mortality rates dropped to zero.

Of course, he was discredited. Lost his positions, died heartbroken in an insane asylum. His policies were revoked, and women started dying again, as God intended.

In the U.S., the newly formed American Medical Association threatened to revoke the license of any doctor caught washing their hands before assisting women in labor. And, this policy continued for several decades EVEN AFTER Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister came up with microphotographic proof supporting Dr. Semmelwies's theory, and won the Nobel Prize in medicine.

The AMA didn't change it's policy until ... 1910. I have yet to find where they have apologized for what had to have been the millions of women they killed. This was about the time that AMA was taken over by big pharma, and we see the results of that now.

Just remember this the next time the medical industry pooh poohs someone who says, "You can cure type 2 diabetes by changing your diet." And has the proof (30,000 cured patients) to back up his statement. See, e.g., Joel Fuhrman, M.D.